News and Events From October 3rd

[Dave Monroe]

UK
1942 World War II V2 Rocket

3rd October, 1942: Germany tests its latest rocket the V2 for the
first time which travels 118 miles, In 1944 Germany launched over a
thousand of these rockets against Great Britain killing thousands due
to little warning or de fences against it. The V-2 was the precursor
to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) developed for the
Soviet Union and the United States by many of the same German
Scientists who had worked on the V-2 rockets in Germany

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